Nearby Words
adjective, feist·i·er, feist·i·est.
1.
full of animation, energy, or courage; spirited; spunky; plucky: The champion is faced with a feisty challenger.
2.
ill-tempered; pugnacious.
3.
troublesome; difficult: feisty legal problems.
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Feistiness
is always a great word to know.
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| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
feisty
1896, Amer.Eng. from feist "small dog," from fice, fist (Amer.Eng., 1805) "small dog;" short for fysting curre "stinking cur," attested from 1520s, from M.E. fysten, fisten "break wind" (mid-15c.); related to O.E. fisting "stink." The 1811 slang dictionary defines fice as "a small windy escape backwards,
EXPANDmore obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs." Cf. also Dan. fise "to blow, to fart," and obsolete English askefise, lit. "fire-blower, ash-blower," from an unrecorded O.N. source, used in M.E. for a kind of bellows, but originally "a term of reproach among northern nations for an unwarlike fellow who stayed at home in the chimney corner" [OED].
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